A Selection from the English Prose Works of John Milton, Volume 2Bowles and Dearborn, 1826 |
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... Religion . 245 Considerations touching the likeliest Means to re- move Hirelings out of the Church . Wherein is also discoursed of Tithes , Church Fees , and Church Revenues ; and whether any Mainten- ance of Ministers can be settled by ...
... Religion . 245 Considerations touching the likeliest Means to re- move Hirelings out of the Church . Wherein is also discoursed of Tithes , Church Fees , and Church Revenues ; and whether any Mainten- ance of Ministers can be settled by ...
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... religion , and the story of scripture . The next step would be to the authors of agricul- ture , Cato , Varro , and Columella , for the matter is most easy ; and if the language be difficult , so much the better ; it is not a difficulty ...
... religion , and the story of scripture . The next step would be to the authors of agricul- ture , Cato , Varro , and Columella , for the matter is most easy ; and if the language be difficult , so much the better ; it is not a difficulty ...
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... religion and law ; so unacquainted with other learning , that when Car- neades and Critolaus , with the stoic Diogenes , coming ambassadors to Rome , took thereby occasion to give the city a taste of their philosophy , they were suspect ...
... religion and law ; so unacquainted with other learning , that when Car- neades and Critolaus , with the stoic Diogenes , coming ambassadors to Rome , took thereby occasion to give the city a taste of their philosophy , they were suspect ...
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... religion , is more doubtful and dangerous to the learned , than to the ignorant ; and yet those books must be permitted untouched by the licenser . It will be hard to instance where any igno- rant man hath been ever seduced by any ...
... religion , is more doubtful and dangerous to the learned , than to the ignorant ; and yet those books must be permitted untouched by the licenser . It will be hard to instance where any igno- rant man hath been ever seduced by any ...
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... religion , that freedom of writing should be restrained by a dis- cipline imitated from the prelates , and learned ... religious men . Who cannot but discern the fineness of this politic drift , and who are the contrivers ? that while ...
... religion , that freedom of writing should be restrained by a dis- cipline imitated from the prelates , and learned ... religious men . Who cannot but discern the fineness of this politic drift , and who are the contrivers ? that while ...
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Page 34 - I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue, unexercised and unbreathed, that never sallies out and sees her adversary, but slinks out of the race, where that immortal garland is to be run for, not without dust and heat.
Page 69 - Where there is much desire to learn, there of necessity will be much arguing, much writing, many opinions; for opinion in good men is but knowledge in the making.
Page 315 - But ye shall not be so : but he that is greatest among you, let him be as the younger ; and he that is chief, as he that doth serve.
Page 3 - The end then of learning is to repair the ruins of our first parents by regaining to know God aright, and out of that knowledge to love him, to imitate him, to be like him, as we may the nearest by possessing our souls of true virtue, which being united to the heavenly grace of faith, makes up the highest perfection.
Page 289 - If we have sown unto you spiritual things, is it a great thing if we shall reap your carnal things?
Page vi - The Tenure Of Kings And Magistrates: Proving, That it is Lawful!, and hath been held so through all Ages, for any, who have the Power, to call to account a Tyrant, or wicked King, and after due conviction, to depose, and put him to death; if the ordinary Magistrate have neglected, or deny'd to doe it.
Page 303 - Holding fast the faithful word as he hath been taught, that he may be able by sound doctrine both to exhort and to convince the gainsayers.
Page 171 - It being thus manifest that the power of Kings and Magistrates is nothing else but what is only derivative, transferred, and committed to them in trust from the People to the common good of them all, in whom the power yet remains fundamentally and cannot be taken from them without a violation of their natural birthright...
Page 266 - For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war after the flesh: (for the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty through God to the pulling down of strong holds;) casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ ; and having in a readiness to revenge all disobedience, when your obedience is fulfilled.